Nilmini De Silva, Looking Within (October Theme: Ocean)

This was shot while on a visit to Antarctica, many years ago. I was cruising the Erebus and Terror Gulf in a zodiac and I remember our cruise leader stopping the boat and asking us to be still. The landscape was surreal and stunning and in those moments of meditative silence, I remember listing to the sounds of Antarctica. The water lapping against the ice, the occasional twitter of bird life and my silent gasp as I stared into the eye of this iceberg and reflected on the journey I had almost completed.

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